Source: The Guardian
Progress towards 20-year-old targets that sought to put women's sexual and reproductive health and rights at the centre of development policy will be assessed at a UN meeting in New York this week.
Source: AWOKO
A seven member delegation comprises of six women and a man from the Solidarity for African Women's Right (SOAWR) are in the country on a follow-up mission towards the ratification of the Maputo Protocol-African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of women and children.
Source: The Point
TANGO the association of non-governmental organizations in The Gambia is holding another policy dialogue, this time "on the particular issue of women's access to productive resources: knowledge, skills, land, credit, production, storage and market facilities".
Source: Thoman Reuters Foundation
Rwanda has made progress in tackling gender inequality over the past 20 years, but women still lag behind in traditionally male-dominated fields like science and business, and violence against women remains a challenge, a campaigner said.
Source: Shabait.com
Eritrean Women in Agribusiness Association (EWAA) held a conference at National Chamber of Commerce Hall over the past 2 days and scrutinized its growth and organizational capacity.
Source: This Day Live
A delegate, Lucy Offiom Tuesday added her voice to the call by a fellow woman that rapists should be castrated as a price for their conduct.
Leymah Gbowee is a woman, a Liberian, who has stared down the barrel of a smoking gun and had the guts to demand her rights as a human being.
The countdown to the Gambia's 2016 general elections has begun with a rare move to bring together female politicians from across the divided political spectrum to ensure increased female representation.
Dressed in a white dress with black polka dots and pink and red carnations, white knee-high socks and matching patent shoes, Babirye recently celebrated her second birthday.
A Study in Zanzibar has proved that accessing legal remedy becomes difficult to many victims of gender violence from poor families.
Thousands of women in Mashonaland West's Chinhoyi town have been left with the difficult choice of declining sex or simply risk unwanted pregnancies, amid reports of shortages on contraceptive pills during weekends.
Safina Kombo (75) is a woman who lives in Butiama District, Mara Region. This old lady fears for her life, because brutal killings of women in her area have become rampant to the point of forcing older women to seek refuge in safer areas.
Source: Daily Trust
Abuja natives under the aegis of Original Inhabitants Development Association of Abuja (OIDA) have faulted the Minster of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, over what they described as undemocratic behaviour and practices following his recent warning to traditional rulers against unlawful protest in the territory.
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia — The fight against drugs in Liberia is taking a more serious trend with the indictment of a Ugandan woman for drug trafficking.
Source: East African Business Week
Hoima — When labour pains strike, Violet Kobusingye has to endure a bumpy painful 30 kilometre ride from her village Mbaraara to Hoima Referral Hospital in Hoima town to get better medical pre and post natal care.
Source: East African Business Week
Kigali — Many Rwandan women are developing through the training acquired through Women for Women (WOW) International Organization which started operating in the country in 1997.
Source: Leadership
The British Department for International Development (DFID), is to sponsor 350 female students from Zamfara to study various courses at the state College of Education in Maru.
Source: FOROYAA Newspaper
An Action Aid-EC Funded project for promoting women's access to socio-economic rights and economic empowerment in Niamina West, Niamina East and Niamina Dankunku in the Central River Region has been launched on Wednesday, 2nd April, ,2014 at Jareng Village.
Source: Vanguard
NKECHI was full of life and in high spirits. She was nine months pregnant and was already feeling the contractions of labour at well-spaced intervals. She had no expectation of problems and was hopeful of a normal delivery.
Source: The New Dawn (Monrovia)
The Ministry of Gender and Development has hosted a one day workshop for journalists all across the country, rallying support of the media in the fight against Sexual Gender Based Violence or SGBV.